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So, myself and my friend were just banned from Atlanta 24. Why? Because we found Aim2wingaming's base for a second time. Two days ago, using their PUBLIC forum posts, we figured out where their base was and raided it. Here's the link: http://www.aim2wingaming.com/forums/f77/dayz-convoy-2481/ http://www.aim2wingaming.com/forums/f77/rawr-rawr-rawr-video-2482/ Between those pictures and the video they took, and approx 18 hours of searching, we found their base, stole everything, and wrecked it in glorious fashion. http://www.aim2wingaming.com/forums/f77/we-will-rebuild-2493/ And again, these gentleman decided to post pics of their new spot. http://www.aim2wingaming.com/forums/f77/camp-goldenleaf-2496/ We found this camp by sheer chance while we were heading north to the NW Airfield. Before we could steal all the vehicles, one of their players (Mayor's Bodyguard 1) logged in, shot me (which is fine) and my friend DeathRambo shot and killed him. Then 3 more logged in and shot him (also fine by me). We run back to where we found their base from the coastline hoping to be able to grab at least one of their vehicles, I found one van, but before i could get in, the server goes down with 0 warning. I quickly try and rejoin only to find out that I've been banned, as has my friend DeathRambo. This happened on June 24 at approx 1:00am EST. Earlier, which can probably be proved with the server logs, they had been restarting the server and setting it to night so they could raid the NW airfield with NVG's to make up for what they had lost. Please, for the love of god, blacklist this server. We will get others to retrieve our items. This kind of shit cannot be allowed to continue to happen.

You told them that you ran up on a guy and shot him in the back of the head while he was fixing his ATV, and we are supposed to believe that you were trying to help these people? Even though they already had vehicles and a camp? seems legit Arkaeus, I thoroughly enjoyed that, please trick more bandits in the future.

-Cons- Everyone rushing to the fuel stations New Place for Bandits to set up traps Vehicle build up Vehicle Hoarders Less Realistic Zombie "horde" event happens without zombies necessarily in the area Immersion breaking, should be able to siphon gas without portable generator More people have access to vehicles People compare Day Z to L4D

Hey all, me and a few friends play on EU 31. But sometimes after a restart the tents are gone. vehicles and so on are there but all tens are gone, same with wire and tank traps. Any ideas why ? Ohh and looking for other players to play with as well. pm me

Vehicles get stolen for a past time, they are probably on their 5th owner when they are destroyed, and there is no effective way to hide vehicles in Day Z when you are offline. How about a very rare item found in military spawns, that you can attach to vehicles. If you own a GPS, you can follow the movement of that vehicle. Now this sounds game breaking, but here is how it would be balanced and in fact balance issues already in the game. In the game, people steal vehicles with no effort at all. I know I just walk up to a vehicle and take it. Somebody put hours of work into repairing it. Well now you need the effort too. Vehicles have parts on them, like fuel tanks and engines, you can choose where on the vehicle you place the device. Be it a wheel, the hull, or the rotor blades. You can get rid of the tracking device by replacing the part of the vehicle with the device on. Should the thief be able to see if there is a device or not? Answer below. If they could see, then it may be more balanced. If they can't see it would add to the paranoia, with people replacing parts on their vehicle when they are not in fact being tracked. Answer below what you think, or if you think this is a bad idea all together. Current balance issues in the game include bandit teams hogging vehicles. I am fine with that having stolen vehicles myself, but only if they don't just leave them hidden miles off the map like they do. This device means people can see where their stolen vehicles are, and ordinary survivors can take them back from the bandits. Another issue I have discovered with the device itself is that fitting the device before it got stolen would surely make it visible on a GPS beforehand and more likely to get stolen? This balances out the issues with people using it all the time for their collection of helicopters. And also using it means anyone can see its location, so it may be stolen from the thief and stolen from them and that means there will be more conflict, so people will avoid using them sometimes. Sorry this is so long, but I wanted to make my point about them not upsetting the balance of the game. :)

I totally disagree with this. This is like an easily scaleable mmo with this functionality. If a host server (excluding central servers at this stage (REMEMBER ITS ALPHA!)) goes down you can just switch over to another. But to have this to fully work out like this you would need to have cross vehicles and tents (i don't think tents follow you yet do they?). The main problem is implementation of this system (1 basic rule is max 1 per player). I think rocket will add them eventually or someone may make an addon for persistent vehicles for private hives coz I haven't figured a way to play at night yet (getting there tho) so when I wana play I gota join a US server from AUS to be in some sort of light with my friends (AUS servers normally full anyway, to bad only windows servers can host dayz) as we play after work but I don't want to do that if I have spent all that time repairing a vehicle (haven't even found any yet tho). I also dont think this would happen (if ever) untill very end of alpha at the earliest as i bet rocket has a load of things he wants to add (or remove ;))

Yes this happened to me, shortly after recent ddos attack. First time I logged in after the attack I had all my gear on me but lost vehicles, next time I logged in I was prompted to choose character sex and had respawned as if I had died. Annoying.

Why not, instead of attempting and more than likely, failing, to govern a town, set up camp in a dense woodland area? Opposed to players coming to you, send out vehicles to supply and help people in need. I get that this is already an established movement among a few groups, and that you're trying to raise the bar, but with the current spawn rate of zombies and 'asshole bandits' I don't see this working.

I like the idea of being able to shoot from vehicles as long as your speed and the size of the gun affect it, even going slow being very inaccurate still. I don't overly think vehicles with large guns attached are a way to go unless you scavenge the gun and ammo, even so I don't like the idea but atleast it's plausible.

Touchy this one, as in the circumstances are a little "off" for a ban. Myself, I do not know all the weapon types and vehicles etc that are "supposed" to be in Dayz. Now, it could be said that it's the players own fault, but are all players expected to read / learn / and memorise the "allowed" list of items in game ? I only have sympathy in this case because I myself have joined a server that I later found out was a "hacked" server, there is no way to tell and being banned for something that is in many ways beyond your own control isn't very fun. I can see the admin's reasoning though, if they know what weapons should or should not be used, and someone is using one of the weapons that they should not have access too, then yeah, I can see the ban being reasonable. I'd like to see the outcome of this, as in my mind if the above situation is correct then the ban shouldn't stick. It was however rightly placed but once clarification of events, i.e, the player has explained how they came to be in possession of the weapons is heard then yeah. I would be "watching" that player in future though, as in this case it's easy to just say "I picked them up" and get unbanned and do it again. I'm not saying that this is the case, it's just something that an admin would be thinking of

Trying not to be negative here but as soon as clans stop acting like tools and hoarding vehicles I'd definitely consider joining one. (Not implying yours does, but I hope this gets fixed soon so I actually want to join a clan). And yes, inb4 I could be waiting a looooong time. Anyways, good luck with your recruitment!

I just wanted to point out that there are servers about that don't have battleye enabled, yet they remain connected to DayZ official hive/database, this essentially allows anyone to connect to said servers, use whatever script they want and deck themselves out in the best gear, spawn vehicles to go from A to B, and then go back to a protected server and wreak havoc with their AS50's and L85's. Some official servers have been non battleye'd for many days, while others temporarily aren't protected for a few hours, I'm not sure if it's the admins that switch it off, or if there's some well designed hack that gets the job done. Either way, the traffic on these servers is very high, constantly people joining and leaving a few minutes later after they've spawned themselves a full inventory of awesomeness. As far as I know there is no risk unless you make it too obvious, and get caught by an admin, and yes, I've been using this method for a good week and all is well.

Another fruitful day behind (8 hours give or take). I had a lot of trouble trying to keep this app working for Android 1.6 as there is indeed ONE user using that version of Android and I don't want to disappoint him/her by not supporting his/hers device (Got you covered pal ;)). Every consumable data is now integrated into the app. I also made it so each time you look at the world or loot map it doesn't reload (not even when changing phone orientation). This way you can check weapons, vehicles etc. and when you go back to maps they are where you left them. They also start loading right as you start the app so they are immediately ready unless you sprint to the maps section :) This newest version is v-1.30 and is downloadable from DayZ Mobile for Android Or if you can't install from there, here's a straight download link for the .apk. Here are some pictures of the new and improved DayZ Android app: I had some trouble with the emulators again so if you have any trouble with old devices or very small / very large screens then please let me know.

I suggest you refer to this thread: http://www.dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=9427 "Can I host a server for my clan? Yes, you can. We encourage clans to set up a server to act as their home. What you cannot do, however, is to restrict the server to your clan only. The gameplay of DayZ involves conflict between survivors as well as zombies, and restricting a server to a single clan would take away this aspect of the gameplay. It would also allow the clan to farm gear without risking interference from other players, which would give them an unfair advantage." - Pallidum DayZ staff If you need help finding vehicles on a private server where you don't have to worry about other survivors taking them then I truly feel sorry for you. Go play on a legit server like everyone else, its a better way to learn the game and will give you a truer experience - DayZ without bandits is not DayZ.

screwing around on a private server to get the hang of how the game works as far as item usage and the zombie AI is concerned, and was wondering, I see many guides talking about vehicles, but my friend and I must have hit at least 10 vehicle spawn locations only to have no luck. Is there a trick to it or something? or just pure bad luck? Its honestly getting a bit frustrating to travel across the map to where a vehicle is supposed to be only to find nothing but zombies along the path. Any help/knowledge would be greatly appreciated

I usually assault as many deer stands as I can from the start because they're not heavily guarded and provide a good chance for AK weapons, water bottles and ammo. From there I usually head to a moderately sized town which has supermarket to find food and tools. From there I usually head to Stary military camps for additional firepower and from there to NW airfield. I usually find players willing to help each other around the airfield and then the process of finding and fixing vehicles.

I am in and subbed to this thread to keep an eye on it. I will fill whatever role you need, but I would willingly be a medic, sent with the convoy to fix any wounds, or to head out and help a player stuck with broken legs. I don't know about cherno, but I'd be willing to try it. I think maybe a blank spot on the coast by cherno may be a better idea. Then you can have snipers overwatching the whole encampment, easily cut the territory off from vehicles, and you'd be free of the zed problem. Killing them over and over and over is going to drain ammo, especially with five people taking four shots at one zed.... I think that will be the biggest problems with zeds in cities, too many ppl will either shoot the same zed, wasting ammo, or no one will and assume someone else will.

Well my friend never found a vehicle till today.. We took out a clan and stole their truck then found a boat and then a fishing boat, so he found first 3 vehicles in one day. But awesome find!

Correct, you are not allowed that rule. Currently there are very few things we can ban for but luckily 1. and 2. of your previous points are bans. I'm unsure of number five, perhaps i have catching up to do :). Could you point me to the official word on that rule and I will have it removed on the next server restart. Thanks for letting me know about that one, guess I will have to put up with it. It may or may not have been commented on officially, but I refuse as a host to allow players to store their vehicles far outside the gameworld, to me that is an exploit which ruins other peoples fun in the server, tons of people ask me about the server's vehicles and when they can expect heli's and they have shown a huge interest in them, but if a group are hoarding them all out the map then they have no chance of ever coming across one in normal gameplay. And to me it is warrant a ban if they do not bring them back inside the map, along with the other points I feel the ban on these guys was justified. I'm afraid I do not have a link, the thread was lost in the DB rollback that happened after a hack attempt (well at least I cant find it so I'm assuming it it was). You should PM a mod for clarity on it but it was commented on by devs themselves that it wasn't allowed.

Correct, you are not allowed that rule. Currently there are very few things we can ban for but luckily 1. and 2. of your previous points are bans. I'm unsure of number five, perhaps i have catching up to do :). Could you point me to the official word on that rule and I will have it removed on the next server restart. Thanks for letting me know about that one, guess I will have to put up with it. It may or may not have been commented on officially, but I refuse as a host to allow players to store their vehicles far outside the gameworld, to me that is an exploit which ruins other peoples fun in the server, tons of people ask me about the server's vehicles and when they can expect heli's and they have shown a huge interest in them, but if a group are hoarding them all out the map then they have no chance of ever coming across one in normal gameplay. And to me it is warrant a ban if they do not bring them back inside the map, along with the other points I feel the ban on these guys was justified.

Seattle 29 used to be the home of me and many of my friends. We had a base with 2 atvs, 2 tractors, 4 tents and a pick up truck. Along with various supplies. We logged in today to find the base entirely gone. Not just all the vehicles stolen and tents flattented, everything was just gone. I don't know what caused this but I would like the issue resolved. I am 100% sure it was not an act of someone taking our stuff because the tents are not flattened they are entirely gone. Bump I would like some action taken or an explanation given. I am sorry I can't give a good screenshot but honestly what would it be of? Everything is gone.

Not sure what you mean by not all servers can spawn vehicles? is there a server side setting for it?

Can we please get clarification on what this means for vehicles? Everyone seems confused by your current statement.

How do you contact an admin without Global / Side? Sometimes servers need to be restarted in order for vehicles to re-appear, We can't tell the admins that the server needs to be restarted because Global / Side are gone!...

Ex1le, the ban was not given for purely and only speaking russian, the things which contributed to their ban were in no specific order as follows: 1 - Disconnecting during combat on multiple occasions 2 - Insulting the administrators and their decisions 3 - Speaking russian on chat even after being asked on multiple occasions to only speak in English/French so the majority of players can understand, considering everyone hears it, this rule is very reasonable. 4 - Spamming chat with absolute nonesence 5 - Collecting a large quantity of vehicles and storing them far outside the map bounds, so that the average players has absolutely no way of recovering them The above ban reasons aswell as a few other minor issues were what lead to their group inevitably being permanently banned from our server. Prior to this we also temp-banned one of their group members so that he could reflect on what he did and then return after the 3day ban to continue playing. But they have gone way too far for our liking and we will keep these bans enforced.